LEGENDS & RUMOURS Phil Hayes, Maria Jerez, Thomas Kasebacher Phil Hayes/First Cut Productions Contact: Lise Leclerc, Tutu Production, lise@tutuproduction.ch +41 (0)22 310 07 62 Phil Hayes, philhayes@bluewin.ch +41 (0)79 669 26 80 More information: www.thefirstcut.ch Phil Hayes/First Cut Productions Legends & Rumours www.thefirstcut.ch 05.07.18 1 5
LEGENDS & RUMOURS Using an elaborate game as a starting point, performers Phil Hayes, Maria Jerez und Thomas Kasebacher set out to ask themselves what turns a moment into a legend and whether it is possible to create a past out the present. How do moments become stories and how do stories become legends? If we treat the present as the past can we talk about it differently, see things in a different light and what happens when events start to collide with our own versions of the truth? Created new each evening, Legends & Rumours negotiates these ques tions with chronic irony, tragic silliness, large doses of seriousness and a fantastic sense of timing between the three performers. As the architecture of memory is laid bare, everyday incidents are attributed historic dimensions, until finally, there is only one way out: the performance becomes a legend itself. Phil Hayes/First Cut Productions Legends & Rumours www.thefirstcut.ch 05.07.18 2 5
«A magnificent theatrical trinity of situation comedy, deception and Samuel Beckett style hopelessness» Tages-Anzeiger «A fresh and intimate piece of theatre» NZZ «Hayes, Jerez and Kasebacher deliver a well-designed and joyous performance.» DER STANDARD «Crazy moments and moments of absolute desolate self-loss within the game, this is the beauty and risk of the whole exercise.» INFERNO MAGAZINE «The show swings between dreams, the body mechanics of burlesque, parodies of repertory theatre and a destructive form of an end of the year show» GENÈVE ACTIVE Phil Hayes/First Cut Productions Legends & Rumours www.thefirstcut.ch 05.07.18 3 5
LEGENDS & RUMOURS Premiere: 14. May 2013 Gessnerallee Zurich Direction: Phil Hayes Created in collaboration and performed by: Phil Hayes, Maria Jerez, Thomas Kasebacher Dramaturgy: Julia Hintermüller Lighting Design: Tina Bleuler/Patrik Riman Sound: Thomas Peter/Susanne Affolter Production Assistant: Nadine Tobler Diffusion/Touring: Lise Leclerc, Tutu Production Production: Lukas Piccolin. Verein First Cut Productions Image/Graphic Design: Adrian Elsener Photographs: Niklaus Spoerri/Michaela Di Savino www.thefirstcut.ch Phil Hayes/First Cut Productions Legends & Rumours www.thefirstcut.ch 05.07.18 4 5
A First Cut Productions coproduction with: Gessnerallee Zurich, Théâtre de l Usine Geneva, Kaserne Basel, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Mousonturm Frankfurt, brut Wien und Migros Kulturprozent. Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung und PRAIRIE: «Das Koproduktionsmodell des Migros- Kulturprozent mit innovativen Schweizer Theatergruppen» Legends & Rumours has been performed some 50 times since 2013 including performances at: Gessnerallee Zurich, Kaserne Basel, Théâtre de l Usine Geneva, Mousonturm Frankfurt, PACT Essen, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Sommer Szene Salzburg, brut Vienna, Theatre Vidy Festival Commun Lausanne, Latitudes Contemporaines Festival Lille-Roubaix, Terni Festival Italy, Actoral Festival Marseille, Paul Eluard Chiosy-le-Roi, Journées de Théâtre Suisse Contemporain, Wuzhen Int. Theatre Festival (China), Danae Festival Milan, Theater Aan Het Vrijthof Maastricht and La Villette, Paris. Contact: Lise Leclerc, Tutu Production, lise@tutuproduction.ch +41 (0)22 310 07 62 Phil Hayes/First Cut Productions Legends & Rumours www.thefirstcut.ch 05.07.18 5 5